| 2 | 15.10.2022 | Ma Stump Puller | 4.0 | Back when wrestling hadn't yet touched China's apparently untapped market yet, WWE and Simon Inoki tried to slice up pieces of the pie for themselves. Inoki did this overtly with multiple IGF shows in China (which were designed to "sell" wrestling to would-be promoters and businessmen) while WWE hired Chinese talent: the most relevant names out of this being Ru Feng, Xia Li, Ho Ho Lun and the namesake above. Unlike those three (who are either still employed by WWE or at least working elsewhere, like Lun) Wang never really seemed to fit anywhere, being mostly a low card jobber for other wrestlers. He had the most potential out of the Chinese showings: he had good height for a wrestler, was allegedly trained by Inoki himself (which like Satoru Sayama "training" multiple Tiger Mask would-be successors was simply a white lie to get more attention for them) and was decent in the ring despite his inexperience. WWE pushed him fairly hard on commentary and by having him star at Wrestlemania way before any of his class could even dream of doing so. That said, from what I did see it felt like he stagnated massively and ultimately drifted off the face of the Earth after being released. It's always weird when someone who's pushed so much does so little, especially when there's barely anything to suggest he was worth the effort outside of a decent look and workrate. There's a irony that the most pushed guy out of the Chinese recruits did the least impact-wise, I suppose. |
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